Confirming again why eyewitness testimony is so unreliable; we all see what we expect to, don't we? It does provide Penn and Teller with a nice living, though.
Getting cats down from trees, help young ladies across the street, saving small children from being run over by a bus. You know, Joe Mauer stuff. Only older.
Similarly, there is a difference between working the pitcher for a walk and being pitched around. As I watched that at-bat I mostly saw the latter; maybe that's my own bias kicking in. But it doesn't surprise me that Joe did better when there was a healthy Morneau hitting behind him. One wonders what impact a healthy Sano might have in the future.
I wonder how perceptions would change had Joe played most of his career in Fenway? I'd ask this because the hitter he most reminds me of is Wade Boggs. Definitely his personality does not.
Yeah, although so are Florimon, Bartlett, Burton, Correia, etc., and pretty much any member of the coaching staff or front office. When you make thunderstorms the lightning is going to strike someplace.
John Wayne or Jeff Bridges? By the way, Reusse has a nice article up today about the loss of Michael Hirschbeck. For my nickel, I think that bit deserves a lot more promotion than the piece which this whole morass was based on.
Still no Arcia or Willingham in the starting lineup today, but also no word either is going to the DL. Both should be available off the bench then, I guess.